THE RE-DISCOVERY OF OLD MEXICAN MINES.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1599, 2 July 1887, Page 3

THE RE-DISCOVERY OF OLD MEXICAN MINES.

Press despatches from the oty if Mexico report that two of the seven lost Mexican' bonanza hilnes have' been found by an American party of prospectors. These mWs were worked up to the middle of the laet^century. In 1766, the Indians swept over northern Mexico, destroyed much property m Chihuahua, iod all the miners were driven out. Tb.3 Indians held • control of , the country no long that all records were lost. Recently Lieut. Kipper, formerly of the United States Army ; W, X, Glenn of Illin i- ; Oapt, Allen and S/Mclntyre, of Cbicag , went out on a surveying expod tlon m the interests of a Sonora land oompany, and m an old cbapel found maps and other data. Dividing into four small parties, a thoroughsearch wasbeguo, and Mclntyre'e party located what io believed to be the '"Layopa" silver mine. It la m the midst of thouaanda of ruined buildings among largtf churches and Fni»s. Within a radios of four miles are 420 workings, old Spanish furoacea and tons of slag. A few daya later Bower's party reported the discovery of the Gaayanopa, m the heatt of the Sierra Madre Mountains, Around it are the joins of 118 factories. Advlcei from iftogaies confirm £he report, aad Bay that a great placer field has beau located where the Jesuits of 200 years ago found fortunes for the Ohuroh. Later reports state that interviews with the Ohlcagoans whom these dispatches associate with the disoovery of these mines confirm (he reports,